Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-16
MADE HIS MILLIONS.
Mayne Of Omaha and How He has Ae.
quired His Riches--Interesting In.

Mayne Of Omaha and How He has Ae-
quired His misunderstanding In
terview--Interest in Horse Flesh.
Mr. c. E. Mayne, who has recently in
vested largely in Rock Island real estate
and whose interest ID this city thus &C.
quired will aid very materially in promot-
ing the present boom, has been inter
viewed in Peoria by Transcript report
er. and that paper speaks of him as a
man whose reputation in connection
with the wonderful stride which that city
is making il the metropolitan field, has
preceded him here The transcript
then goes on to say:
MIR. Mayne was found quartered at the
National, his object here being attend
| aRce at tn b races, he having with him a
fine stab le of horses, among which are
Consul, D an d and others, Mr.. Mayne
is the organizer, and is still president of
the real estate and trust company bearing
his name, and on being asked he cause Of
the boom his city is now enjoying, stated
that what was called boom" was
merely the natural development of the
large area of country tributary to Omaha,
which is becoming rapidly settled up,
necessitatiD market near at hand, and
Omaha was so geographically situated as
to command attention and dictate with
the leading commercial and manufacture
| ing cities of the country. The number of
| important railroads and trunk lines cen
terlng in Omaha and branching out in
all directions have Justly earned for that
city the nom de plume of Gate City TO the
| West" Omaha has now a population of
100, 900, while in 1880 the census showed
but 10000. This fact speaks for itself1
| Statistics prove her to be the third lumber
mart in the United States and as manu-
featuring burg she is rapidly coming tc
the front She has forty. one miles Of
paved streets. and In this respect stand,
next to Washington, D. c. The real es'
tate transfers for the first four months Of
this year amounted 10 over those for thu
entire year of 1885, and the building pei
mits already issued this spring for build
ings in course of construction amount
in value to over fifteen millions of dol
lars
Mr.. Mayne has beer in the real estate
business something over four years, anL
of the 800 odd additions placed on thu
market in that time, he was either direct
ly or indirectly interested in one>third o.
them, and he states that no six month:
of that time have elapsed that did not SEE
an increase in values of from so to 10t
per cent. For the past two years Sontf
Omaha has been attracting considerable
attention as to one of the leading pack
ing marts of the west, and this industr,
has grown to such an extent that tn,
great pork dealer, Phil Armour, of Chi
cago, has bought an extensive plan
there. and with new additions to sam,
will soon have in operation packer,
employing between l, 800 and 1900 men
and with a capacity for killing 4 00I
hogs and 1000 cattle daily. and this, il
connection with the large packing hous
of Swift i Co, now under way, and tn
five Others already in operation, eacl
nearly as large as the first mentioned
will make Omaha second to Chicago il
that industry inside of year with bril-
liant prospects to rank that CITY in tn
near future. Mr.. Mayne remains in th
city until tomorrow. when he leave
for his interesting burg on the Missouri